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Other Bain/LOC Mexican Revolution photos with copyright notice of the Mutual Film Company: Wealthy Mexican in Flight: U. S. Army searching for arms on U. S./Mexican border: Bridge between El Paso and Juarez: Mathilde Martinez and children: Mexican refugees going to Marfa: Mexican federal troops taken prisoner by Pancho Villa, awaiting execution at Ojinaga (a Mexican town on the U. S. border): General Caho, Governor of Chihuahua: Pancho Villa: Pancho Villa, with Rodolfo Fierro: Pancho Villa, with Fierro and Madero: Pancho Villa himself: Mrs. Pancho Villa, location not specified:

PANCHO VILLA'S ARRANGEMENT WITH THE MUTUAL FILM CO.: "In January 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar when he signed an exclusive contract with the Mutual Film Corporation. In return for $25,000, he agreed to keep other film companies from his battlefield, to fight in daylight whenever possible, and to reconstruct battles if the footage needed reshooting. "Now the subject of an HBO film starring Antonio Banderas (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself), Villa is one of the main protagonists in Margarita de Orellana's vivid account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. "Through memoir accounts, newspaper reports, and analysis of the films themselves, "Filming Pancho" reveals much about how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how the film images reinforced and justified American expansionism and racial and social prejudices." --From a description, on Amazon, of a documentary movie of Hollywood's treatment of the Mexican Revolution. (The DVD is available for purchase from various Amazon vendors.)

Other Bain/LOC photos of the Mexican Revolution, with copyright notices of the Mutual Film Company: Wealthy Mexican in Flight: U. S. Army camp at El Paso, Texas: Army trooper looking for arms on U. S. -- Mexico border: Mathilde Martinez and children: Mexican refugess going to Marfa: Mexican Federal troops taken prisoner by Pancho Villa at Ojinaga (a town on the U. S. border), awaiting execution: General Caho, Governor of Chihuahua: Pancho Villa alone: Pancho Villa, himself: Pancho Villa with Rodolfo Fierro: Pancho Villa, with Rodolfo Fierro and Raoul Madero: Mrs. Pancho Villa:

PANCHO VILLA'S ARRANGEMENT WITH THE MUTUAL FILM CO.: "In January 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar when he signed an exclusive contract with the Mutual Film Corporation. In return for $25,000, he agreed to keep other film companies from his battlefield, to fight in daylight whenever possible, and to reconstruct battles if the footage needed reshooting. "Now the subject of an HBO film starring Antonio Banderas (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself), Villa is one of the main protagonists in Margarita de Orellana's vivid account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. "Through memoir accounts, newspaper reports, and analysis of the films themselves, "Filming Pancho" reveals much about how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how the film images reinforced and justified American expansionism and racial and social prejudices." --From a description, on Amazon, of a documentary movie of Hollywood's treatment of the Mexican Revolution. (The DVD is available for purchase from various Amazon vendors.)

Found an 1912 NYT article about Col. Edgar Z. Steever's promotion to Brigadier General (pdf) during the Mexican Revolution and the accompanying cross-border troubles. He was born in Pennsylvania and graduated second in his class at West Point. He was commissioned a Second Lieutanant in 1871. He fought in 34 battles and skirmishes in the Philippines. BG Steever was forced to retire (pdf) in 1913.

shouldn't the title be "Comd G" instead of "Comp. G"?

yeknod: Thanks for noticing the transcription error. We changed the title to transcribe the letters in the negative rather than the caption card.

If he became Brigadier General in 1912, wouldn't this have to be 1910-1911? I mean, wouldn't they have mentioned that level of rank? Even whether they wuld write that or not that remains murky, clearly it could not have been later than 1913 if that was when he retired.

Could this have been at Fort Bliss?